I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out of was the intense feeling of growing up. It sounds kind of cliché, but it's true.

The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

I'm not going to hide behind anything.

The camera gives you some control.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.